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As everyone is starting to head back to school, it seems like there is only one thing on everyone’s minds: textbooks. To be completely honest, I hated text books. When ever professors assigned readings, I would usually only skim through them or not read them at all. Traditional textbooks are too heavy to bring to school and they’re extremely boring. Plus, I hated never knowing what the most important information was. What should I focus on and what should I skim?

However, Mc-Graw Hill Education recently changed my whole outlook on textbooks with their new launch, the Smartbook! This Smartbook is an electronic textbook that organizes and helps you through the readings to ensure that you read and catch the most important parts. McGraw-Hill Education’s Smartbook is the first and only adaptive reading and learning experience designed to change how students read and learn. I recently got to try out one of the Smartbooks and I picked out the Organic Chemistry textbook. Although I absolutely love Organic Chem, I often find the textbooks extremely frustrating to read. I am very pleased to say that was the case with these Smartbooks! The Smartbook highlighted all the most important topics, walked me through the readings and then tested my knowledge. Smartbook continuously adapts to a student’s study experience by highlight content based on what a student knows and doesn’t know. I felt confident that I was truly learning the material. Not only is the Smartbook less frustrating to read, studies have also proven that Smartbook improves student performance by at least one letter grade!

But wait there’s more! Throughout the Read It Forward program, for every SmartBook purchased by October 31, 2013, McGraw-Hill Education will donate a textbook to children in need around the world. You have the power to help educated other children! With your help this fall, SmartBook will have an even greater impact on student education than ever before.

And because I know all of you are broke college students like me, McGraw-Hill is offering 15% off with the promo code FORWARD14 through October 31.

So go get your handy textbook to help yourself and a student in need.

McGraw-Hill Read It Forward:MHEreaditforward.com

ftc disclaimer: This post was sponsored byMcGraw-Hill Education but all opinions are my own.